Roundup kills weeds

Posted by Ronan on Nov 22, 2005 in Uncategorized | 1 comment

Haven’t blogged for a while.. nothing major happened over the past while, being working on stuff for projects and papers. Re. projects mgb and I are heading to Paris early Dec. Re. paper well I should be finished with it soon.

I got an order for a clock from someone that was given one as a present. Her mother saw the clock,admired it and wondered if she could get one – so I’m gonna make up one for her.

Bought and sold an mp3 player on Ebay sold Xdrum 1G usb player bought a 20G iaudio M3

The road is opening friday so when I head home on friday (weather permitting) I should be able to bypass loughrea for the first time.. speaking of weather it is a bit cold but being honest I love this weather.

The pup is back to 100% shredding things as usual.

things that bug me about people.

Posted by Ronan on Nov 22, 2005 in Uncategorized | 3 comments

people driving on my bumper.
people who drive too close to me when I’m cycling.
people writing stupid ns2 scripts that make no sense and prove nothing.
people calling around to the house, attempting to sing christmas carols and demanding money.
people who don’t hold the door & those that don’t say thank you when you hold the door for them.

anyone got pet hates? .. feel free to vent.. venting is good.

loughrea losers — who are you ?

Posted by Ronan on Nov 15, 2005 in Uncategorized | 9 comments

loughrea played the county final on sunday against portumna. Loughrea played well in the first half and were up 6 points at one stage – Then they lost the plot completely. Started fouling and in the end lost by 7 points.

the new pup is ill and was really off form on sunday. she was taken to the vet where he said she had gasto-something-something-other-ivitis.

Born in
DECEMBER means I am:
Loyal and generous. Sexy. Patriotic. Active in games and
interactions. Impatient and hasty. Ambitious. Influential in
organizations. Fun to be with. Loves to socialize. Loves praise.
Loves attention.. Loves to be loved. Honest and trustworthy. Not
pretending. Short tempered. Changing personality. Not egotistic.
Takes high pride in oneself. Hates restrictions. Loves to joke. Good
sense of humour. Logical.

Post a comment with your name and month of birth and I’ll reply with your characteristics… promise.

hmmm..

Posted by Ronan on Nov 9, 2005 in Uncategorized | 1 comment

The Keys to Your Heart

You are attracted to obedience and warmth. In love, you feel the most alive when your lover is creative and never lets you feel bored. You’d like to your lover to think you are loyal and faithful… that you’ll never change. You would be forced to break up with someone who was emotional, moody, and difficult to please. Your ideal relationship is lasting. You want a relationship that looks to the future… one you can grow with. Your risk of cheating is zero. You care about society and morality. You would never break a commitment. You think of marriage something you’ve always wanted… though you haven’t really thought about it. In this moment, you think of love as something you thirst for. You’ll do anything for love, but you won’t fall for it easily.

home sweet home

Posted by Ronan on Nov 7, 2005 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

I’m currently working from home this week and you know… I’m getting work done. I know I get stuff done in UL but there are distractions and perhaps I don’t work as well in UL. Today for example I got up, had breakfast did some reading on how FMS detectors work in US freeways, got a bullock back in from Callnans – rebuilt the wall in three places he tried and eventually got out from. Had lunch and then returned to looking at empirical information from Highway L202 (Phoenix Arizona) gathered by the FMS detectors. The plots were interesting so I went about try to find a curve that would fit the empirical data. A couple of hours later I had 6th order polynomial with 95% confidence that PotFlow can understand. I then headed off to check on the animals up in ‘Ryans’, by this time the weather had turned most foul!! when I was wandering up battling against the wind/rain I was thinking about how my new curve could be used to set trigger levels for LOS in PotFlow. I eventually got up there, counted the correct numbers of animals and headed back. After tea I decided to put my ideas to the test and low and behold they worked – I have some cool new results that are hopefully going to go into a section of my VT journal.

So I reckon being at home and farming increases my productively rate up by at least 40% (that’s what Matlab is currently predicting). If interested some of the variables used in my Productivity Equations are expressed in the following pseudo code
Loughrea_Productivity_Func(
ChaseCattle(NumPerDay),
BuildWalls(NumPerDay),
GotoMartAndDoReallyBadly,
GotoMartAndDoWell,
SleepInALavaPit(tempOfElectricBlanket),
GetFreeFood(CostOfShopping),
GoShoppingForFood(LevelofFoodInHouse,NumberOfGuestArriving),
IgnoreEmail_MSN(NumPerDay),
Meetings(NumPerDay),
MiscMumCalls(NumPerDay),
MiscDadCalls(NumPerDay),
CuppaTeaBreak(NumPerDay),
)